While default (aka vanilla or un-configured) Emacs is serviceable in editing Org and Markdown files, its out-of-the-box experience feels more like I’m programming said files rather than...

TL;DR: Sometimes Emacs needs a timeout
A diamond is very pretty. But it is very hard to add to a diamond. A ball of mud is not so pretty. But you can always add more mud to a ball of mud.
– Gerald Sussman, paraphrasing Joel Moses
A common problem with…

Context Last week while pairing with a team member, she asked about an idiom she observed. Namely that I wrote code comments as follows: The first line of the comment block had two # characters (e.g. ##) and then following commented lines begin with #. Here’s…

Our next elisp project us going to write a function that will automatically generate function headers. This was actually the first useful elisp I ever wrote around thirty years ago. I forget how I wrote it then so this is a total rewrite.
Nowadays we have…

In 2020 I wanted to create annotated charts showing events influencing the COVID-19 numbers. I looked around and didn’t find great ways to do it, so of course, as a software engineer, I started building a thing: contextualize.ai.
Fast forward many weekends…

For my solo Role Playing Game (RPG 📖) sessions I write the game play within Emacs 📖 . For each RPG campaign, I’d craft a few custom functions to roll on random tables. I had some common functions that I used, but the table definition was always ad-hoc…until…

Configuring Emacs is a video series where I began with a vanilla installation of GNU Emacs and have slowly configured it. In this video, I spend most of my time cleaning up the config file by moving a lot code to other locations. I also add a lot of important…

The personal website of Hristos N. Triantafillou.

Problem: I need one transient command to end to the transient-session after it is done From a Reddit thread at https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/15u0c7w/how_can_i_define_transient_color_per_command/
This is basically like using Hydra semantic colors1.…

Any sufficiently advanced hobby is indistinguishable from work. — Jeremy Friesen Introduction On Wednesday I wrote Emacs Proto Package for Random Tables. Since then, I’ve been looking at how to further extend this functionality.
For this blog post, I’m assuming…

Yesterday I wrote Further Into My Random Table Emacs Proto Package. In writing it I thought up the following: First, invoke the roller with one universal prefix arg (e.g. C-u M-x random-table/roll) to replace all random calls with prompts. That is “Computer…